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クロノス・クァルテットもしくはクロノス・カルテット (Kronos Quartet) は、アメリカ合衆国の弦楽四重奏団。1973年にヴァイオリニストのデイヴィッド・ハリントンによって結成され、1978年より現在までサンフランシスコを拠点に活動を続けている。
“The Kronos Quartet interprets Witold Lutoslawski’s 1964 String Quartet, an uncommonly difficult piece since the four musicians are commanded to play their parts ad lib, as if they were alone.Lutoslawski was influenced by the random procedures of John Cage, but he also wished to maintain dramatic structure, so String Quartet includes rigidity in time measures.
Thompson’s story is the basis of the opera Mỹ Lai, composed by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) for Kronos Quartet, Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, and vocalist Rinde Eckert. This recording of Mỹ Lai captures the visceral, phantasmal depictions of Thompson’s grief, horror, and guilt ...
The tradition of ‘ghost opera’ is thousands of years old. The performer of ‘ghost opera’ has a dialogue with his past and future life – a dialogue between past and future, spirit and nature.”. SELECT CREDITS. Kronos Quartet. David Harrington, violin, water bowl, bowed gong, vocals, one-stringed lute, cymbals, stones.
Kronos Quartet, amerikansk San Francisco-baserad stråkkvartett, grundad av violinisten David Harrington 1973.Kvartetten har blivit ett av de största namnen inom modern kammarmusik med mer än 800 verk specialskrivna för ensemblen. Kronos Quartet har vidgat den klassiska stråkkvartettens repertoar genom att uppföra experimentell musik, jazz, pop, tango och folkmusik samt genom samarbeten ...
Placeless is the first collaboration between Kronos Quartet and Iranian singers Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat. Recorded in Oslo’s Kulturkirken Jakob, the album features 14 songs composed by Mahsa Vahdat to classical poems by Hafez and Rumi and the works of contemporary Iranian poets Forough Farrokhzad, Mohammad Ibrahim Jafari and Vahdat’s husband Atabak Elyasi.
Artist’s Bio. Lassana Diabaté is a virtuoso balafon (22-key xylophone) player who comes originally from Guinea. The balafon dates back at least to the 13th century, when the warrior prince Sunjata Keita founded the great Mali Empire. Sunjata's Time is dedicated to Keita, whose legacy continues to be felt in many ways.
